Spacy - Can't find model

Question

Running:

import spacy
nlp = spacy.load('en_core_web_sm')

Results in the following error:

E050] Can't find model 'en_core_web_sm'. It doesn't seem to be a shortcut link, a Python package or a valid path to a data directory.

How do I solve this issue?

Answer 1

Assuming you have spaCy correctly installed on your machine, open cmd and type:

python -m spacy download en_core_web_sm

Then run again your script and you should be fine

Answer 2

Error E050

In order to load model/pipeline first we need to install the model. Please type in below download command in terminal.

python -m spacy download en_core_web_sm